Heal with Grace

Grace Secker
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Heal With Grace is a podcast that invites listeners into the world of holistic healing. Hosted by Grace Secker, a trained holistic psychotherapist, yoga therapist, and nervous system coach, each episode delves into the interconnected realms of mental, physical, and spiritual health. The podcast offers a unique blend of personal stories, professional insights, and practical tools for healing.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    123. How Your Personality Traits Keep Your Nervous System Stuck

    If you've ever caught yourself thinking "that's just me -> I'm an anxious person," or "I've always been a perfectionist, it's just how I am" -> this one's for you. In this episode, I'm walking you through the 6 personality traits that show up over and over again in people with chronic symptoms. Anxiousness. Pressure. Perfectionism. People pleasing. Catastrophizing. Black and white thinking. These aren't who you are. They're learned patterns. Which means they can be unlearned. I'm digging into how each one keeps your nervous system stuck in threat mode, where it actually came from (hint -> it's almost never random), and the small shifts that start to loosen the grip. I'm also sharing the moment my therapist called me out on my own perfectionism in grad school -> and the light bulb that finally went off for me. If you've been doing the work, listening to podcasts, reading the books, and you still feel like something keeps pulling you back into the loop -> it's probably one of these. Maybe more than one. The good news is, naming it is half the work. Once you can see the pattern, you can step outside of it. You don't have to fix your personality. You just have to give your nervous system a different message than the one it's been getting for years. Resources mentioned in this episode: Sign up for my FREE Live Masterclass happening May 15th : How to know if your symptoms are nervous system driven and what to do next Pain Reprocessing Therapy  Resources from Grace: Mind-Body Healing Method Course - Regulate your nervous system nowWork with us in private mind-body coaching Subscribe to my Substack for the deeper how-to'sDownload the FreeMe app for chronic fatigueFREE Nervous System Tracking WorkbookConnect with Grace Connect on InstagramCheck out my website

    26 min

  2. 28 APR

    122. Are You Putting Pressure on Yourself to Get Better? With Lindsay Vine

    If you've been doing all the right things and still putting pressure on yourself to heal faster, this conversation might land deeply. Grace sits down with Lindsay Vine, an ME/CFS and long COVID recovery coach who spent seven and a half years navigating her own healing journey, including a period of being fully bedbound. Lindsay now works one-on-one with clients and teaches mind-body and neuroplasticity courses within the healthcare system in British Columbia, Canada. She also co-created the CFS Programs Guide, a searchable resource covering 34+ recovery programs to help people find the right fit without the overwhelm. Together, they explore how the pressure to "get better" can become the very thing keeping the nervous system stuck. They discuss the role of goodism — the deep need to be seen as good — and how it drives people to turn recovery into another achievement to get right. Lindsay shares her own turning point of shifting from valuing achievements to valuing who she is, and they talk through what it looks like when brain retraining feels fake, why positive psychology alone isn't always enough, and how doing less can sometimes be the real healing move. They also break down the three pathways that keep people stuck — worry, pressure, and self-criticism — and what to pivot to instead: gratitude, focusing on wins, and self-compassion. This episode is for anyone who's ever thought, "I should have figured this out by now." Find Lindsay:  Website Post Viral Podcast CFS Programs Guide Listen to Episode 14: Healing ME/CFS Using Brain Training and Nervous System Regulation  Resources from Grace: Mind-Body Healing Method Course - Regulate your nervous system nowWork with us in private mind-body coaching Subscribe to my Substack for the deeper how-to'sDownload the FreeMe app for chronic fatigueFREE Nervous System Tracking WorkbookConnect with Grace Connect on InstagramCheck out my website

    51 min

  3. 21 APR

    121. 6 Ways To Create Safety in Your Nervous System

    In this solo episode, Grace breaks down what it actually means to create safety in the nervous system — moving beyond the vague advice of "just feel safe" and into six specific, practical approaches that listeners can start using right away. She explores why a dysregulated nervous system keeps responding to non-dangerous things as threats, and why safety isn't something you can think your way into — it has to be felt in the body.  Grace walks through the power of accepting where you are instead of fighting it, how suppressed emotions keep the system stuck in chronic activation, the role of spiritual connection in co-regulation, and why authentic self-expression may be the deepest safety signal of all.  Drawing from her own healing journey and clinical experience, she gets honest about what it took to stop performing okayness and start actually feeling it. This episode builds on her popular earlier conversation with Vanessa Blackstone in Episode 24, going deeper with concrete examples and practices. An episode to save and return to — each practice builds over time, and different ones will land for different people. Referenced episode: Ep 24. How to Create Your Own Authentic Message of Safety with Vanessa Blackstone: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2346801/episodes/15170620 Resources from Grace: Mind-Body Healing Method Course - Regulate your nervous system nowWork with us in private mind-body coaching Subscribe to my Substack for the deeper how-to'sDownload the FreeMe app for chronic fatigueFREE Nervous System Tracking WorkbookConnect with Grace Connect on InstagramCheck out my website

    30 min

  4. 14 APR

    120. How to Recover from Migraines, POTS & GI Issues Through Your Nervous System

    Kayla Jacobsen is a licensed clinical social worker and mental health therapist based in Minnesota, where she works at a small group practice supporting individuals navigating anxiety, chronic pain, trauma, and traits associated with being a Highly Sensitive Person. Her approach is relational and holistic, shaped deeply by her own healing journey with chronic migraines and a sensitive nervous system. Through the Mind-Body Healing Program, Kayla experienced meaningful shifts in how she relates to her emotions, beliefs, and symptoms — work that continues to inform how she shows up with clients today. In this episode, Kayla shares what it was like to have migraines starting at age 10, cycle through Western and Eastern medicine without lasting answers, and eventually realize that information-gathering had become its own form of avoidance. She and Grace explore how perfectionism, shame, and suppressed anger were quietly driving her symptoms — and what actually changed when she stopped trying to fix her migraines and started relating to them differently. Kayla also talks about what this work has opened up in her therapy practice, including how she now invites conversations about physical symptoms into sessions and incorporates more experiential, nervous system-informed approaches with her clients. Find Kayla:  Psychology Today Willow Creek Counseling Resources from Grace: Mind-Body Healing Method Course - Regulate your nervous system nowWork with us in private mind-body coaching Subscribe to my Substack for the deeper how-to'sDownload the FreeMe app for chronic fatigueFREE Nervous System Tracking WorkbookConnect with Grace Connect on InstagramCheck out my website

    36 min

  5. 7 APR

    119. How Ellen Healed from Long COVID, MCAS, & POTS

    Ellen B. Alden is a Mind/Body Coach who fully recovered from Long COVID after the medical system could not help her. When chronic symptoms took over her life, Ellen discovered that healing was possible through nervous system regulation and brain retraining. Using mindfulness, meditation, and Pain Reprocessing Therapy, she overcame chronic illness, anxiety, and lifelong hypervigilance. She is certified in PRT, MBSR, MBCT, and functional breathing, and now helps others heal through her community, My Recovery Crew. In this episode, Grace and Ellen discuss what it was like to be shuffled through the medical system with diagnoses of Long COVID, MCAS, and POTS — and how Ellen moved from hopelessness and victimhood to full recovery. Ellen shares the nighttime turning point that shifted her mindset, how she used visualization and micro moments to retrain her brain, and why she started reintroducing feared foods using breathwork and safety cues. They explore what recovery actually looks like day to day, why post-exertional malaise disappeared when Ellen changed how she related to movement, and how letting go of perfectionism and outcome-driven thinking was essential to healing. Connect with Ellen: www.stress-less-studio.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellen_mindful_healing/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ellenalden-mind-body-healing Email: ellen@ellenalden.com Resources from Grace: Mind-Body Healing Method Course - Regulate your nervous system nowWork with us in private mind-body coaching Subscribe to my Substack for the deeper how-to'sDownload the FreeMe app for chronic fatigueFREE Nervous System Tracking WorkbookConnect with Grace Connect on InstagramCheck out my website

    51 min

  6. 31 MAR

    118. The Thing That Was Missing From My Own Healing (And Probably Yours Too)

    In this solo episode, Grace Secker opens up about the one thing she was missing during her own healing journey — and why it kept her stuck in flare cycles for years, even after she understood the work. It wasn't more information, more books, or more podcasts. It was consistent support, accountability, and community. Grace shares her personal story of recovering from chronic pain in her 20s through what is now called pain reprocessing therapy, only to develop a wave of new symptoms years later — chronic fatigue, gut issues, histamine reactions, migraines — and having to find her way back to mind-body work all over again, this time completely alone. She explains why understanding alone doesn't change the nervous system — because knowledge lives in the prefrontal cortex while the patterns driving symptoms operate from much older, less rational parts of the brain. Real change comes from practice, repetition, and showing up consistently, especially on the hard days. Grace also explores the science of co-regulation — how our nervous systems are wired to calm and heal in relationship with other safe humans — and why so much healing content is consumed in isolation, which limits how far it can take you. Grace introduces what she's been building behind the scenes: small, intimate group containers (six people max) designed for people already in the MindBody Healing Method course who want structure, accountability, and a community of people who truly get it. The first group launches in April. Resources from Grace: Mind-Body Healing Method Course - Regulate your nervous system nowWork with us in private mind-body coaching Subscribe to my Substack for the deeper how-to'sDownload the FreeMe app for chronic fatigueFREE Nervous System Tracking WorkbookConnect with Grace Connect on InstagramCheck out my website

    20 min

  7. 24 MAR

    117. How your GI Issues are Created by your Nervous System

    If you've been diagnosed with IBS, chronic constipation, cyclic vomiting, or another functional GI issue and your doctor can't find anything structurally wrong — that's actually good news.  In this episode, Grace sits down with Dr. Jennifer Franklin, one of the first gastropsychologists in the US, to break down the gut-brain connection in a way that's simple, clear, and genuinely hopeful.  They explore how the autonomic nervous system controls both stress and digestion, why lifelong patterns like people-pleasing and emotional suppression quietly fuel gut symptoms, and how your brain works around the clock to keep certain emotions out of consciousness — and what that means for your body.  Dr. Franklin shares her powerful "passenger seat" analogy for working with your body instead of against it, and explains why reducing stress is the one intervention with no downside.  If you've been told "nothing is wrong" but you're still struggling, this conversation reframes that diagnosis as a starting point for real healing — because it's a software problem, not a hardware problem. 🔗 Find Dr. Jennifer Franklin: 🌐 Website 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook ▶️ YouTube Resources from Grace: Mind-Body Healing Method Course - Regulate your nervous system nowWork with us in private mind-body coaching Subscribe to my Substack for the deeper how-to'sDownload the FreeMe app for chronic fatigueFREE Nervous System Tracking WorkbookConnect with Grace Connect on InstagramCheck out my website

    40 min

  8. 17 MAR

    116. 7 Habits for Successful Nervous System Regulation

    If you've been doing the nervous system work but still feel stuck, this episode is for you.  Grace Secker dives into the seven habits she consistently sees in people who actually heal — and why how you show up to the process matters just as much as what you practice.  This isn't a checklist or protocol. It's about the mindset, identity, and ways of being that shift everything.  Grace explores why waiting to feel "ready" keeps you stuck, how over-identifying with being sick reinforces survival mode, the quiet belief that you don't deserve to heal, and what it looks like to build real safety in your daily life.  She also gets honest about why consuming information without practicing keeps the brain locked in old patterns — and how to stay in the process even when healing isn't linear.  Whether you're just beginning to explore mind-body healing or you've been on this path for a while, this episode offers a grounded, compassionate reframe on what recovery actually asks of you. Resources from Grace: Mind-Body Healing Method Course - Regulate your nervous system nowWork with us in private mind-body coaching Subscribe to my Substack for the deeper how-to'sDownload the FreeMe app for chronic fatigueFREE Nervous System Tracking WorkbookConnect with Grace Connect on InstagramCheck out my website

    31 min
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Heal With Grace is a podcast that invites listeners into the world of holistic healing. Hosted by Grace Secker, a trained holistic psychotherapist, yoga therapist, and nervous system coach, each episode delves into the interconnected realms of mental, physical, and spiritual health. The podcast offers a unique blend of personal stories, professional insights, and practical tools for healing.

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  • Creator
    Grace Secker
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    122
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Heal with Grace
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